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  Thursday, June 20, 2013

  

Environmental disclosure

Prof invited to address national green chemistry conference

VANCOUVER, Wash. - Faculty member Mark Stephan will speak this week at the 17th annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference in Washington, D.C. He was invited, in part, due to attention received as co-author of the award-winning book, [more]

Instrumental outreach

WSU professor becomes ambassador for oboes

PULLMAN, Wash. - A WSU music professor is using oboes to capture hearts and minds in Southeast Asia. Keri McCarthy has received a WSU grant to bring the woodwind instruments to Burma, where they are virtually nonexistent. [more]

June 27

Potato field day celebrates seed trials, new irrigation system

OTHELLO, Wash. - WSU's potato field day will start at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, June 27, at the WSU Othello Research Center, 1471 W. Cox Road. The day will celebrate 50 years of Washington commercial potato seed lot trials and[more]

Top scholars follow mentors to WSU

Students earn pharmaceutical science research support

SPOKANE, Wash. - Two graduate students in pharmaceutical sciences at WSU have received prestigious fellowships from the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education.
 
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Participants show ‘increased joviality’

Dogs help improve moods among teens in treatment

PULLMAN, Wash. - Lindsay Ellsworth is prescribing a new, mood-boosting therapy for teenagers in drug and alcohol treatment: shelter dogs. 

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Testing manikin ‘victim’

Faculty, students take part in shooter simulation

SPOKANE, Wash. - Pharmacy professors and students from WSU recently trained with Spokane Valley emergency response teams in a shooting simulation[more]

July 10 - Economic, environmental solution

Field day showcases anaerobic digestion technologies

LYNDEN, Wash. - Anaerobic digestion, a biological process of breaking down organic waste material, and a suite of new tools that add value to the process will be featured during a WSU field day on Wednesday, July 10, near Lynden, Wash.
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Rock Doc

Battling bacteria that threaten citrus industry

Did you have a glass of orange juice this morning? If so, you may want to know that the simple pleasures brought to us by citrus fruit are under attack from a disease called citrus greening or yellow dragon disease.[more]

Rock Doc

Battling bacteria that threaten citrus industry

Did you have a glass of orange juice this morning? If so, you may want to know that the simple pleasures brought to us by citrus fruit are under attack from a disease called citrus greening or yellow dragon disease.[more]

National award

Graduate student wins for video about Parkinson’s study

PULLMAN, Wash. - A WSU student has won a national award for a compelling video that he created about his work to improve treatment for Parkinson’s disease. View the video [more]
Includes Soundslide

Holds 86 U.S. patents

Distinguished professor becomes AIChE Fellow

PULLMAN, Wash. – WSU Voiland Distinguished Professor Yong Wang was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in May, just a couple months after being named a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.[more]

Twitter ‘yelling’ attracts followers

Confidence trumps accuracy in pundit popularity

PULLMAN, Wash. - It would be nice to think the pundits we see yelling on TV and squawking on Twitter are right all the time. It turns out they’re wrong more often than they are right.
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Goldwater and Howard Hughes

Student scientist wins top national honors

PULLMAN, Wash. - WSU senior Fiorella Grandi, 21, recently landed two prestigious national awards for her academic pursuits: [more]

Research gateway photos

Wine Science Center builders selected

RICHLAND, Wash. - The Wine Science Center Development Authority has selected Lydig Construction Inc. and ALSC Architects of Spokane to design and construct a $23 million [more]
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Through summer

Historic Nez Perce photos on exhibit

PULLMAN, Wash. - Historic images of the Nez Perce people, or Nimiipuu, will be on exhibit April 11 through the summer at the WSU Libraries Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections. A free, public opening reception[more]



 

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